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Barry R. Hill
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I found this great quote (great to me) from a thesis paper I was reviewing the other day... Hickey (1997) makes an analogy between music and visual arts to demonstrate the exclusion of improvisation and composition in schools: In order to learn to...
September 17
Barry R. Hill added a blog post
Yes, believe it or not we can have fun in a psychology course. Every summer I get to work with K-12 music teachers to share ideas about how students learn, how to reconsider how we package our content and activities to best match this, and to swap...
September 4
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John sent me a link to a few Wordle exercises his students did awhile back - and they're too good to pass up. Here's the link to one of them. The idea is that each student provides a word that describes a subject, but the key is that it's from the...
July 15
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When we talk about great ideas like having students collaborate and publish rich content in blogs, wikis, etc, educators are often understandably concerned about security - do we really want students' stuff available out there? In some case the an...
May 1
Marian Dura commented on Barry R. Hill's blog post 'iPhone Trombone'
This is hilarious! Thanks so much for posting it! (There's such a strong link between creativity and humor, isn't there?)
April 27
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Dr. Dura had mentioned the Leaf Trombone earlier running on the iPhone - here's proof of its existence: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV0fmNo7474]
April 24
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I helped the juniors in Mary's music ed class get started on using a blog site for their professional portfolio. The college provided each of them with their own site, and we showed them basic things like posting items, adding videos, etc. The ide...
April 17
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iPhone band
Another example of using various instruments on the iPhone.
March 19

Who am I?

And what am I doing here? I'm a Professor of Music at Lebanon Valley College where I direct the Music Recording Technology degree program as well as the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. My passion is in educational psychology and instructional design - understanding how people learn new things and helping teachers apply this in their classrooms. I teach a graduate course at LVC called Psychology of Music Learning where we discuss these ideas, so I'm pretty excited about helping develop this network to see where it can go. Feel free to email me anytime - hill@lvc.edu. Thanks for getting involved.

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Learning music by staying inside the lines

I found this great quote (great to me) from a thesis paper I was reviewing the other day...
Hickey (1997) makes an analogy between music and visual arts to demonstrate the exclusion of improvisation and composition in schools: In order to learn to paint, fifth grade students are given paint sets and are asked to paint only by numbers and to stay in the lines at all times. They would proceed to paint in this manner for their entire stay in arts education. She suggests that music education uses th… Continue

Posted on September 17, 2009 at 10:09am —

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Another great time in Learning Psych class

Yes, believe it or not we can have fun in a psychology course. Every summer I get to work with K-12 music teachers to share ideas about how students learn, how to reconsider how we package our content and activities to best match this, and to swap war stories about things we've tried. It's often eye-opening (for both sides) and immensely rewarding for me (and I hope for them). My hope is that teachers don't simply keep doing the same things they started with...think about it, consider what might… Continue

Posted on September 4, 2009 at 9:12pm —

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I'm gonna steal one of John Gabriele's ideas to show everyone

John sent me a link to a few Wordle exercises his students did awhile back - and they're too good to pass up. Here's the link to one of them. The idea is that each student provides a word that describes a subject, but the key is that it's from their perspective, not something memorized from a textbook. This reveals very interesting opinions and thoughts from their side, which is crucial to knowing where they stand.
http://w… Continue

Posted on July 15, 2009 at 5:30pm —

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Google offers Web 2.o tools for education

When we talk about great ideas like having students collaborate and publish rich content in blogs, wikis, etc, educators are often understandably concerned about security - do we really want students' stuff available out there? In some case the answer is YES - that's the whole point, so they can get feedback from people in the community, such as professionals in a particular field. However, often we need a system that provides the power of Web 2.0 tools, but within a secure, closed system. Googl… Continue

Posted on May 1, 2009 at 3:28pm —

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iPhone Trombone

Dr. Dura had mentioned the Leaf Trombone running on the iPhone - here's proof of its existence:

Posted on April 24, 2009 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

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At 8:31am on February 13, 2009, Kevin Poole said…
Thanks Dr. Hill! I'm interested to see what this network can do, although I'm not sure I'm all that savvy with the technology. I can probably learn a lot--and understand my students a little better. Thanks for arranging this network.
At 7:36am on February 11, 2009, Matt Dickinson said…
The network is so locked down that you can't do anything. And of course, the 10 page document of acceptable uses of internet technology has to be pored over to make sure I am not violating any agreements with my new adventure.
At 2:54pm on February 10, 2009, Matt Dickinson said…
I have to wait until our tech guy gets out of the hospital. He broke his leg in two places. Then I'll be in business.
 
 

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